cloud是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 云(状物) ; 遮暗物, 阴影; 一大群,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A heavy unbroken crust of cloud stretched across the sky, shutting out every speck of heaven; and a distant halo which hung over the town of Casterbridge was visible against the black concave, the luminosity appearing the brighter by its great contrast with the circumscribing darkness.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Your father's health is vigorous, and he asks but to see you, but to be as-sured that you are well; and not a care will ever cloud his benevolent countenance.
-- Elizabeth also wept and was unhappy, but hers also was the mis-ery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides but cannot tarnish its bright-ness.
-- 101 My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by argu-ments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.
-- I was encompassed by a cloud which no beneficial influence could penetrate.
-- I was bewildered, in a cloud of wonder and horror.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Battle of the Boyne had been fought more than a hundred years before, but, to the O'Haras and theirneighbors, it might have been yesterday when their hopes and their dreams, as well as their lands and wealth, went offin the same cloud of dust that enveloped a frightened and fleeing Stuart prince, leaving William of Orange and hishated troops with their orange cockades to cut down the Irish adherents of the Stuarts.
-- Gerald obediently put spurs tohis horse and was off in a red cloud after the Tarleton carriage where he could continue his horsy conversation.
-- It was as though a small, dark cloud had appeared in the northwest, the first cloud of a summerstorm.
-- The small cloud on the horizon had blown up swiftly into a large,sullen storm cloud and it was as though a faint, chilling wind blew from it.
-- There was a great cloud of red dust coming up the street and from the cloud came the sound of the tramping ofmany feet and a hundred or more negro voices, deep throated, careless, singing a hymn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Upon which he put down his head, blew a cloud of smoke out of his nose, and vanished with a kick-up of his hind-legs and a flourish of his tail.
-- Whenever I watched the vessels standing out to sea with their white sails spread, I somehow thought of Miss Havisham and Estella; and whenever the light struck aslant, afar off, upon a cloud or sail or green hillside or water-line, it was just the same.--Miss Havisham and Estella and the strange house and the strange life appeared to have something to do with everything that was picturesque.
-- Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an Eternity of cloud and wind.
-- Having thus cleared the way for my expedition to Miss Havisham's, I set off by the early morning coach before it was yet light, and was out on the open country road when the day came creeping on, halting and whimpering and shivering, and wrapped in patches of cloud and rags of mist, like a beggar.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'It's not worth the trouble,' said the third; 'let him live, he'll go climbing higher up the moun-tain, and some cloud will come rolling and carry him away.'
-- But the huntsman had heard all they said; and as soon as they were gone, he climbed to the top of the mountain, and when he had sat there a short time a cloud came rolling around him, and caught him in a whirl-wind and bore him along for some time, till it settled in a garden, and he fell quite gently to the ground amongst the greens and cabbages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The station for the country house was at the opposite end of the town, the time was short, the road not easy; but she was so quick in pouncing on a disengaged coach, so quick in darting out of it, producing her money, seizing her ticket, and diving into the train, that she was borne along the arches spanning the land of coal-pits past and present, as if she had been caught up in a cloud and whirled away.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My uncle, turning in a westerly direction, pointed out to me a light cloud of vapor, a kind of haze, with a faint outline of land rising out of the waters.
-- A vast atmospheric cloud of vapor surrounded the earth on all sides, preventing the rays of the sun from ever reaching it.
-- The waters flowed over the whole surface of the globe; they boiled; they were volatilized, or turned into vapor; a kind of steam cloud wrapped the whole earth, the globe itself becoming at last nothing but one huge sphere of gas, indescribable in color, between white heat and red, as big and as brilliant as the sun.
-- But before this wilderness of waters reached us, the mighty veil of cloud was torn in twain; the sea began to foam wildly; and the electricity, produced by some vast and extraordinary chemical action in the upper layer of cloud, is brought into play.
-- It floated on the stream of hot lava, amidst a falling cloud of cinders.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Life, like all the rest!On the low dark ceiling of cloud at night red blotches burned and quavered, dappling and swelling and contracting, like burns that give pain.
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